“I, sole heir to the Munodi line and memory, am childless. A friend who knows such things has told me that this explains my compulsion to capture what I can with black ink on white paper." ("The Volatilized Ceiling of Baron Munodi")” WritingChildrenCreativityWriters Author:Rikki Ducornet
“I like to imagine that Adam's tongue, his palate and his lips were always on fire, that the air he breathed was kindled to incandescence each time he cried out in sorrow or delight. If fiction can be said to have a function, it is to release that primary fury of which language, even now, is miraculously capable - from the dry mud of daily use. So that furred, spotted and striped, it may - as it did in Eden - scrawl under every tree as revelation.” WritingLanguageFiction Book:The Jade Cabinet Source: The Jade Cabinet
“A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind itself, a book is a private space. Within that space, anything is possible. The greatest evil and the greatest good.” WritingMindBookEvilSpaceCitizensAnything Is PossiblePrivate Things Author:Rikki Ducornet
“What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.” IfsBookDreamReadingCausesTangibleWorth Reading Author:Rikki Ducornet
“An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it lives in light and shadow.” MindImportantLightMemoriesFieldsReturnMoonShadowAgain And AgainCompelledLight And Shadow Book:Gazelle Source: Gazelle
“Cinematic and symphonic: this is a compelling story revealed in a sequence of voices that are as pitch-perfect as they are irresistible. This is a wonderfully impressive debut: tender, muscled and unforgettable.” StoriesVoicePerfectCompellingSequenceImpressiveIrresistibleDebutCinematicUnforgettablePitch Perfect Author:Rikki Ducornet
“The child is born speaking the languages of birds; the child has horns and scales and wings; it has a beak; it has a cloven hoof. He is the sum of all creatures: the ones that swim, the ones that soar, the ones that leap, the ones that maze the earth with burrows.” LoveChildrenAgeEarthLanguageBornCreaturesBirdWingsScalesLeapSwimSoarHornsMazesBeaks Author:Rikki Ducornet
